The purpose of Reconstruction.
What is to rebuild the South politically and socially after the Civil War?
This doctrine justified American expansion across the continent, based on the belief that it was the nation's destiny.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A grievance the farmers had during Westward Expansion.
What are high debts?
What are high railroad shipping rates?
What is lack of support from the government?
The time period when the Industrial Revolution came about.
When is the late 19th century?
Investigative journalists who sought to expose the corruption in big businesses and political schemes.
Who are Muckrakers?
The deal that officially ended reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This policy aimed to assimilate Native Americans into American society by allotting them individual plots of land.
What is the Dawes Act?
The monetary policy advocated for by populists.
What is bimetallism?
Two negative impacts of industrialization.
What is the growth of big business?
What is poor living conditions?
What is poor working conditions?
The political movement that arose from Industrialization.
What is Progressivism?
This group used violence and intimidation against African Americans and their allies to undermine Reconstruction efforts.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This battle in 1876 resulted in a significant victory for Native American forces against U.S. troops, led by General Custer.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
What is improved technology?
What is more jobs?
What is increased immigration?
What is improved transportation?
Companies that complete dominate and control their industry. Think Standard Oil and US Steel.
What is a monopoly?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A conflict or hostility between different ethnic groups, often arising from competition for resources, political power, or cultural differences, leading to tension, discrimination, and violence.
What is ethnic antagonism?
A critique of Populism.
What is it oversimplified solutions complex issues?
What is it only was for farmers in the South and the West?
This movement aimed to improve labor conditions and rights during the Industrial Revolution, leading to the formation of labor unions.
What is the labor movement?
The governments response to monopolies.
What is they eventually broke up monopolies?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An example of ethnic antagonism during westward expansion?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is the forced assimilation of Native American?
A reason William Jennings Bryan lost the 1896 election?
What is he did not win a state in the Northeast?
What is Laborers in the North did not support Bimetallism?
What is the Republicans were more organized?
The type of corruption that took place in the governments of big cities like Chicago and New York. Think Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
What is political corruption?
The problem that the Muckraker Upton Sinclair brough attention to in The Jungle.
What is the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry.